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Binance hack: who decides when stolen crypto is frozen?
Stablecoin issuers froze about $3bn of the funds stolen from Binance within hours, according to Binance. Their freezing powers are written down. What outsiders cannot…
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Maven's AI agents: who is accountable when they fail?Part 3 of 3
Anthropic told courts it cannot alter Claude once it is inside a classified Pentagon system, and an appeals court has now ruled that how a laboratory trains its models can itself be a supply chain risk. Military AI…
Ethics
Human control of military AI: safeguard or weak point?Part 2 of 3
Human judgment is the main safeguard in US military AI, and the thing a fast, jammed battlefield wears away. Pentagon policy requires only appropriate human judgment, while Palantir says Maven cuts two weeks of staff…
The Camorra has gone digital. So has the state.
In Naples, organised crime uses drones, encrypted phones, online betting and social media to extend its reach. Italian investigators are responding with intercepted communications, financial intelligence and AI.…
Power
Palantir Maven after Claude: the swap, by Palantir's accountPart 1 of 3
Palantir says the Pentagon replaced Claude inside Maven with no operational impact. The claim highlights a different dependency: the platform connecting models to military data and workflows.
Technology
Starshield speed limit: why drones depend on satellite links
Ukraine's Starshield episode shows that a satellite terminal on a drone is a dependency someone else can adjust, and that Europe has no ready replacement. The harder question is operational resilience: which missions…
Power
Yandex strikes: did they cut Russian disinformation?
After Ukrainian drones hit three Yandex data centres, officials and commentators said Russian disinformation had fallen in Ukraine, Europe, the US and the UK. The evidence published so far does not support that,…
Cockroach Janta Party: built online, tracked offline
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